People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

The news is glorified gossip.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

Knowledge is currency here….

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

That awkward moment when you are sitting next to people who gossip too much that you are even scared of leaving them cause you know that you are next.

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart

A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland’s most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.

That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

Uvijek svi znaju za nesreću i zlo, samo dobro ostaje skriveno.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls … three...

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.

Lebedev: …There’ll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it’s better to go through a scandal, isn’t it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, ‘God, Madam’.

Gossip’s like jam; it don’t bear fruit if you don’t spread it.

Oh! I know what I wanted to tell you – you’ll never guess who Thomas is chasing after now…”Hmmm, never guess or can’t be bothered to guess – it was a hard call. I yawned...

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you...

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .’He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls’ bladders that...

I feel like ‘Gossip Girl’ isn’t really ‘Gossip Girl’ anymore when they’re away at school because they don’t go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much...

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through.

It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in...

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

People you’ve known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip’s tainted tongue whips you – they don’t show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as...

Many a man’s tongue shakes out his master’s undoing.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

There is one more thing,” said Mr. Peabody. “Now you must go and pick up all the feathers.” … “I don’t think it’s possible to pick up all the feathers,” Tommy replied. “It would be...

I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

The important thing isn’t what other people think you are; it’s who you are.

I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.